Ok, so according the the scientific community... The Big Bang was a massive explosion that resulting in the formation of the universe. Well, according to the scienfitic community, what was the creator of this explosion? And what would the root of this explosion be classified as? If something caused this explosion before so called nothing-ness, wouldn't this mean that there was SOMETHING before the formation of the Universe? What is this something?
2006-11-20 06:33:32 · 18 answers · asked by Sir 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
According to Big-Bang-ologists, the Universe just felt like being created and burst into existence. There is absolutely no explanation why it was created from a scientific standpoint.
2006-11-20 06:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by sft2hrdtco 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The first part of you question: The 'big bang' was not an explosion. You are thinking about explosions in the everyday sense of the word. Explosions like dynamite or bombs happen IN the universe and usually in some atmosphere like air which burns very rapidly to produce the explosion. The big bang was not a bang at all (there was no sound whatsoever) and it did not occurr IN the universe, but rather it expanded AS the universe itself.
The second part: There is no way to explain, understand or even speculate as to what the "root cause" of the big bang was, since at the point of the big bang all the laws of physics break down. Therefore you cannot extrapolate backwards from the big bang. IF something 'caused' this 'explosion' there is no way to tell what it was.
2006-11-20 14:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Science does not and cannot address the question of who or what created the explosion; as far as science is concerned, that was the beginning of the universe and if anything existed before, it is utterly unknowable. It does not follow that there was in fact "something" before the big bang: the explosion was the beginning of time as well as the beginning of space. If you wish to speculate that a deity was involved which created all this, and the physical laws that have prevailed since, you are quite at liberty to do so without fear of stepping on any scientific toes. But such a belief is useless, as it cannot have any testable consequences.
2006-11-20 14:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You should really go read up (in the SCIENTIFIC literature) on this, as there isn't room to explain it here.
First, it wasn't an "explosion."
Second, it *could* have come from absolutely nothing at all, according to string theory. See, we've discovered that even in completely empty space, quantum vaccuum fluctuations are constantly making matter and energy out of nothing -- and doing so doesn't violate any theories of matter and energy. Since the Big Bang was the formation of both space and time, there was nothing before it. No space, no time, no matter.
Welcome to quantum mechanics -- it takes a little bit of study and intellectual curiosity to understand, but it's well worth the effort. It's a much more reasoned and logical path than mis-quoting already-discredited religious dogmatists who must appeal to some kind of supernatural cause for things, and don't actually understand what science is or what it is working on :)
2006-11-20 14:39:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
There was the absence of nothing, because even nothing is something.
If you follow the big bang formula back in time (or a black hole in general), you'll reach a point where the known physical laws breakdown. That's as far back as present knowledge can take us, so it reaches a point of the absence of nothing.
That is all science says or attempts to say. We leave the ghost stories to guys with frumped hair and polyester suits on TV.
2006-11-20 15:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anyway you cut it, you come up with the question:
Can something come from absolutely nothing?
Previous to string theory scientist told us without
hesitation that the big bang was when something exploded in space and created everything else
completely at random, giving us universal physics laws out of total chaos....
Now some of the experts are changing thier theory
to one that fits the fact that they really don't
don't have a clue, String theory.............
Either way they would have us beleive that something
a trillion times more complex than the space shuttle
was created when a blob of something else exploded
just because it felt like it......
2006-11-20 14:45:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
the big bang theory is full of holes, they are constantly making up new theories with big words to try and explain it so you cant understand how absurd the theories actually are. it goes against the second law of thermodynamics which states everything in a closed system will move to a more disorderly state than it was before.its amazing that its so widely accepted. I'm amazed they can even call it a theory.
the only thing that can explain the existence of the universe is God
people just don't want acknowledge the existence of a God, because then their actions would be held accountable for.
2006-11-20 14:57:14 · answer #7 · answered by daniel T 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.
2006-11-20 14:36:37 · answer #8 · answered by jelly-bean 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As long as scientists keep getting huge grants. There will always be theories. we could find the cure to cancer if these blowhards weren't so hung up on proving their point,and put they're brains toward something that could make the world better. Are scientists and lawyers related?
2006-11-20 20:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Chuck Norris.
2006-11-20 14:35:24 · answer #10 · answered by Jon C 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋